#necronomico

[ligbi]

Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show is such a weird anime.

Produced by the Anime Horse Girl company while they adapt a renowned manga, but animated by a studio with two other anime out in the same season.

Written by the screenwriter for the 'best of the madoka ripoffs' and the 'its always sunny in philadephia if it was an anime' guy with music by an american who did the music for one of the biggest fantasy anime of recent years (sad edition. not the food one)

It combines Lovecraftian mythos of Elder Gods and Sanity loss, with VR and streamers, quasi-death games, and popular video game formats ala fall guys and dead by daylight

A non-binary Vtuber does the opening song and the ending features a minecraft youtuber singing.

There is a scenery chewing host who is clearly modeled off Char Aznable and another elder god whose body is used to doing muckbangs

The character designer was the artist for the Higurashi manga, and the art style is reminiscent of 00s anime with delightfully bright and colorful everything.

There is a potential for non-blood related incest yuri and enemies to lovers yuri.

Cthulhu has a princess onee-sama vibe and FAT tits.

The under aged main character hangs out at a bar run by a larger trans woman (drag queen?) who is playing surrogate mother to mc and her comatose-because-of-plot sister

ChatGPT was used for the official subtitles causing a reasonable controversy.

Approximately 4 people are watching it.

NecroMiko is a banging streamer name.

Please give it a chance.

[yurisorcerer]

If I can reveal something that was probably already obvious to most of the people who read these, I mainly watch this show for Cthulu. Cthulu is a great villain, but this is actually the first episode where we've gotten to see her do much, and I appreciate that about episode six a lot.

The conceit of this episode is that the Great Old Ones take a day off in temporary semi-human bodies to kick around Japan and see what Earth is like. Most of these diversions aren't too interesting. Gua's in fact actively annoyed me. Several times while she's taking Kei on a foodie tour she whips out the old "we are to humans as humans are to ants" chestnut, which is a lot less convincing coming from the eldritch terror in the first place. Even more so when the Old God in question is chowing down on udon or whatever. Cthulu's though is great, because she chooses to spend her day off hanging out with and also tormenting Miko. Why?

Because she has a fucking crush on her. Yeah, really!

Now Cthulu's not stupid, so she openly wonders whether these are her own yearnings or those of the body she's possessing---Miko's relationship with Mayu is referred to in textually romantic terms here, stripping any remaining ambiguity that may have been left about that---but she doesn't really seem to care! In fact, because Cthulu is, you know, evil, she seems to take a lot of delight in the fact that Miko is attracted to her despite hating her guts. This reaches its apex when she forces a kiss on Miko. Miko is obviously very distraught by this, which just winds Cthulu up more! She's the fucking worst! I love her!

This season was hardly lacking in yuri, but more of it from a place as relatively unexpected as a death game anime is always nice. Doubly so when it's this toxic.

Some other stuff happens in this episode too---Eita defects to the Old Gods' side for whatever good that'll do him, as if anyone could care---but none of it matters nearly as much to me as Cthulu's gleeful tormenting of her new pet.

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

admittedly imaginary family was a crazy play that I kinda respect

[kirbyite]

[ligbi]

Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show ED Theme || Pandora by Vell ft. Noa (from Colorful Peach)

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

I can no longer watch this not on 2x speed. I'm glad the fuckin vatican guy has just been standing around threatening to do something in the narrative for like 3 or 4 episodes now. Eita's maybe dead but he also maybe just has no eyes anymore, who gives a shit.

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

cosmic horror yuri kiss made me want to keep watching and new eita stuff makes me want to drop. I am once again at an impasse but I think thanks to the power of the 2x speed button I press on.

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

yk it's weird if I finish this show then I'm sure the gamer guy will be dead by the end but I can't even imagine it would be cathartic anymore